(Australian) A radical, terrorism-backing Sydney cleric who described Jewish people as “descendants of pigs and monkeys” and urged people to “spit on Israel” so that “Jews would drown” is a Saturday school principal teaching sharia to children as young as five.
The Australian can reveal that southwest Sydney cleric Abu Ousayd is the head of an informal Saturday school for children aged five to 12 at Bankstown’s Al Madina Dawah Centre.
Since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, the centre has provided a platform for incendiary sermons by a number of clerics, including Mr Ousayd.
Mr Ousayd has previously expressed support for Islamic State and al-Qa’ida, boasted of friendship with terrorists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, and preached extremist ideology at his now-defunct Al-Risalah Islamic Centre, which was frequented by numerous men who committed atrocities in Syria.
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